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    Supports→Concrete occasions of love deserve to count as divinity because they are triply ultimate.

    Concrete occasions of love are metaphysically ultimate because they are the efficient and final cause of the universe.

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    John Bishop and Ken Perszyk (2016, 2017) propose a panentheism they call a “euteleological conception of divinity” (model 22 here), on which (1) divinity is the property or activity of being the supreme good (“eu” in “euteleological”) and (2) realizing this property or activity is the point (“telos” or final cause) of the universe. In addition—inspired by an unusual kind of efficient causation called “axiarchism” on which final causes can function as efficient ones, an idea visible at least sinc

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